There was no plan for Vietnam. There was no plan for Irak. There was no plan for Afganisthan. There is no plan for Ukraine.

Capital is unable to plan long term.

They made a miscalculation with Russia. Russia itself was shocked how well it stood up to sanctions.

I think they know the implications very well. The calculus is simple: right now they have the high ground and most of the cards. They have hegemony, dollar dominance, control of SWIFT, the ability to sanction anyone anywhere and strike fear into huge chains of private actors like companies that they don’t touch anyone who touches anyone who’s on the shit list. They have cultural dominance and they have high technology dominance.

If they do nothing they lose all of that. The longer they wait the weaker they are and the stronger China is. The only reason they haven’t gone harder yet is China was smart to weave themselves into the western economic system. But that’s what these moves are for, to reduce their exposure and then end it. They do it piece by piece to reduce the shock and prevent any capital backlash. Salami-slicing.

You have to remember that during the Cold War the CIA managed to buy Soviet titanium for their military aircraft without the Soviets catching on while doing their damnedest to strangle the USSR with economic embargo.

The US has mature intelligence and sanctions apparatus with decades of experience and intel from a coterie of vassals and their various hacking and internet cable intercept efforts. China can’t uno reverse sanctions as effectively due to its position.

I think the US succeeds in its high tech decoupling though fails at suppression.

But if they can’t suppress them they’ll exclude them and bifurcate world supply chains, create bloc conditions like the first Cold War and work to foment unrest, extremism, counter-revolution, and balkanization in China, Russia, and other partner nations like Iran.

Another thing. China having to send goods to be finished in Vietnam or India is good for the US ability to impose sanctions on China while evading retaliation. As we’ve seen with Russia and in fact that Cold War titanium buying the US will launder its purchases with the help of companies in those countries to appear like they’re going elsewhere meaning China’s sanctions won’t have much bite without that whole mature intelligence apparatus to catch and stop evasion which is what the US has and can do.

The decision maker in the US did made European immigrants highly dependent on immigrants of non-European ancestry from their free riding over the child slaves in the Indian Residential fake schools that became the Nazi death camps and the stolen inheritance of children in the fake cultural assimilation projects; although Pax Americana could justify this high dependency with their claim that the elite circle of the European immigrant of North America are more important than the 99% of white people who will be thrown into poverty, the mass displacement of their own race for new immigrants of colors proved that the European immigrants had been living a parasitic lifestyle all the time which could humiliate their race.

As for the flawed economic sabotage against the Communists, my guess is that Pax Americana elites had become too spoiled and delusional after the "convinced" the Soviets to "go against their personal interest" and end the cold war by being more "liberal" than the American liberals (Fukuyama, end of History).